I was particularly taken by Andrew Keen, who was brought in as a counterpoint to the Web 2.0 Love Fest. Keen is a polemicist who denounces Web 2.0 as a “grand utopian movement” similar to “communist society” as described by Karl Marx. He stated it “worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer”. He also professes to be no fan of the blogging phenomenon…

I met him afterward chatting with Ty Montague and promised to blog the speech! (He grimaced at me and walked off). True to my word you can check out (hey, even buy) his book here.